Creating new amendments on a List of Draft Amendments (LoDA)

Introduction

To create new traditional amendments, first navigate to the bill project to create your new amendments.

How to create a LoDA

From the 'Amendment Workspace' tab, click on the + New button in the top right

Select either to create:

Traditional amendments (to type in the instruction) or
In-line amendments (to edit the published version of the Bill to be amendmend)

The system will ask you to provide the following information:

Bill version

House (UK Amendments only)
Stage
List name
Proposer

When you have added the necessary details, click on the Create button

Lawmaker will take you to the Editor, with the List of Draft Amendments template loaded and pre-populated with the affected bill short title.

Hints and tips

When you save your amendment list, your locks will be released. At the same time, the "Amendment Information" panel will be updated with any changes to the instruction resulting in different 'location' information e.g. if you changed a page or line number etc.

Selecting a proposer when you first create the list is optional. It will mean that your first amendment is already populated with a proposer making it quicker to get started drafting the content of your amendment

The default permissions set will be that any user in the same organisation as you will have read/write access to your document including the ability to submit one or more amendments within it.

The bill version will default to the latest published bill version in the selected project.

If there have been no published bills yet, the default bill version will be “As Introduced” thereby allowing you to draft amendments in advance of the amending stages

The LoDA’ preface contains placeholder elements for stage information and a subtitle. These can be deleted if not required

When you save your List of Draft Amendments, any new amendment will be automatically assigned a unique number constructed from the abbreviated form of the organisation you belong to, followed by a number e.g. HoC1 which will stay with the amendment throughout its lifetime and can provide a handy reference for the amendment before the official number is assigned

UK Amendments

The list of Members available in the "Proposer" drop down will update according to the selected House

If there are no published bill versions in the Project, the default House will be "House of Commons" but this can be changed

Lords: the Clause or Schedule number should be included in the text of the amendment instruction rather than inserting a separate interstitial heading. Whenever a PDF is generated, the system will automatically create interstitial headings containing the clause or schedule number.

Ping Pong motions and amendments

See Creating ping pong motions and amendments on Lists of Draft Amendments (LoDAs)